{"id":10659,"date":"2025-07-15T08:45:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T06:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eurocc.nscc.sk\/?p=10659"},"modified":"2025-07-15T08:45:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T06:45:38","slug":"stretnutie-s-michalom-valkom-expertom-na-velke-jazykove-modely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eurocc.nscc.sk\/en\/stretnutie-s-michalom-valkom-expertom-na-velke-jazykove-modely\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting with Michal Valko, expert on large language models"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The National Supercomputing Centre and the National Competence Centre for HPC, represented by Lucia Mal\u00ed\u010dkov\u00e1, met with prominent Slovak scientist Michal Valko, who is among the world\u2019s leading experts in artificial intelligence and machine learning. They discussed opportunities for future collaboration, with a particular focus on leveraging Slovakia\u2019s HPC capacities to support advanced research in large language models and algorithms that require minimal human feedback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Michal Valko currently serves as Chief Models Officer at a stealth startup, is a researcher at the prestigious French institute Inria, and lectures at ENS Paris-Saclay. In 2024, he also became the principal engineer for Llama at Meta, where he is building the online reinforcement learning infrastructure and conducting research for the Llama 3 models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His research focuses on designing algorithms that can operate with as little human intervention as possible. This includes deep reinforcement learning, bandit algorithms, unsupervised learning, as well as so-called self play \u2014 learning by comparing one\u2019s own outcomes. Recently, he has concentrated on data representations, language models, and developing deep learning algorithms with solid theoretical foundations. He is currently working on algorithmic solutions that enable more efficient fine-tuning and better alignment of large language models (LMMs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michal Valko comes from Slovakia, where he attended the Alejov\u00e1 Gymnasium in Ko\u0161ice. Looking back, he especially values the close collaboration between this school and the Faculty of Science at UPJ\u0160, which sparked his interest in science. He went on to study artificial intelligence and mathematical methods in computer science at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics of Comenius University. In 2011, he earned his PhD at the University of Pittsburgh under the supervision of Milo\u0161 Hauskrecht. He then completed his postdoctoral studies with R\u00e9mi Munos, with whom he later co-founded Google DeepMind Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout his career, he has also worked on projects with companies such as Intel, Adobe, Technicolor, and Microsoft Research. As early as 2009\u20132010, during an internship at Intel Labs in Silicon Valley, he contributed to the development of autonomous systems designed to help visually impaired people recognize faces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The National Supercomputing Centre and the National Competence Centre for HPC will continue to actively seek opportunities to connect Slovakia\u2019s HPC infrastructures with global leaders in the field of artificial intelligence. They believe that this meeting will also lay the groundwork for new ambitious initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The National Supercomputing Centre and the National Competence Centre for HPC, represented by Lucia Mal\u00ed\u010dkov\u00e1, met with prominent Slovak scientist Michal Valko, who is among the world\u2019s leading experts in artificial intelligence and machine learning. They discussed opportunities for future collaboration, with a particular focus on leveraging Slovakia\u2019s HPC capacities to support advanced research in large language models and algorithms that require minimal human feedback.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/template-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurocc.nscc.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurocc.nscc.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurocc.nscc.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurocc.nscc.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurocc.nscc.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10659"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eurocc.nscc.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10665,"href":"https:\/\/eurocc.nscc.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10659\/revisions\/10665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurocc.nscc.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurocc.nscc.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurocc.nscc.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurocc.nscc.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}